"Commit yourself to an organization or cause that genuinely fires you up."

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Source : "Do College Admissions Officers Care About Community Service?" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

Nancy Lublin

#Fire Quotes #Organization Quotes #Causes Quotes

“Then shift to intention. Not what I find missing in my life, but to what I absolutely intend to manifest and attract into my life...”
“Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.”
“Royce nodded. â€œInvest in crossbows. Next time stay hidden and just put a couple bolts into each of your targetâ€™s chests. All this talking is just stupid.â€ â€œRoyce!â€ Hadrian admonished. â€œWhat? Youâ€™re always saying I should be nicer to people. Iâ€™m trying to be helpful.”
“My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.”

Source : Stan Getz (2017). “Stan Getz - Omnibook: For B-flat Instruments”, p.2, Hal Leonard Corporation
“The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.”
“If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger.”
“You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries...”

Source : Israel Zangwill (2015). “The Melting Pot”, p.38, Israel Zangwill
“Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.”

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